What do people study when they study economics? How has studying economics changed in the last 200 years? Why aren’t students learning about this history? And how is the women’s liberation movement related to racial justice in economics? Join host Dean Brian Edwards and Gary Hoover, Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, as they discuss these questions and more in this episode of Anti-Racism and the Disciplines.

Timestamps:

• [00:52 - 03:47] What is economics? When does it emerge as a field?

• [03:47 - 05:24] How important is the history of economics to economists?

• [05:24 - 06:46] Why do we consider economics a social science?

• [06:46 - 08:43] Does it matter to economics that it emerged at the same time as col ...